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Key · 12-10-2014, 09:06 PM

#7 & #8

The Emptiness & A Place Where The Sun Is Silent

Yep. I'm a humongous fan of post-hardcore bands, more specifically bands like Alesana and Chiodos really do it for me. These two albums are a big part of that. I think I stumbled upon The Emptiness on accident. A friend of mine sent it to me, and I put it into my library, and I don't really think it got a lot of listens out of it for a long time, then there was one day that I was just curious as to what it was, and upon first listen, I was instantly hooked. The screamer/growler were fantastic, and I just loved the style of vocals throughout the album. They weren't perfect, and had some obvious flaws, but I came to realize that was the style they were going for. I enjoyed it quite a bit, I found it comforting for some reason. I still rank The Emptiness as one of the best albums in my entire collection.

After nerding out with Alesana for a long time, I found that they came out with A Place Where The Sun Is Silent, and this album is very special in it's own. Throughout finding my love for this style of music, this band just ranked very high with me, and a main part of that as I said was the cleaner vocals, and how they just felt comfortable. Unfortunately, with The Emptiness, there's just not enough of the cleaner vocals. Upon listening to A Place Where The Sun Is Silent, I found they tried to appeal to those listeners that really clinged to the cleaner vocals, and they did it so well. The band as a whole seemed to have grown a lot in this album since their last releases, but that's not saying their previous albums were bad, this one just has a much more mature feel to it.

12-10-2014, 09:06 PM	#12 (permalink)
Key . Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 13,153	#7 & #8 The Emptiness & A Place Where The Sun Is Silent Yep. I'm a humongous fan of post-hardcore bands, more specifically bands like Alesana and Chiodos really do it for me. These two albums are a big part of that. I think I stumbled upon The Emptiness on accident. A friend of mine sent it to me, and I put it into my library, and I don't really think it got a lot of listens out of it for a long time, then there was one day that I was just curious as to what it was, and upon first listen, I was instantly hooked. The screamer/growler were fantastic, and I just loved the style of vocals throughout the album. They weren't perfect, and had some obvious flaws, but I came to realize that was the style they were going for. I enjoyed it quite a bit, I found it comforting for some reason. I still rank The Emptiness as one of the best albums in my entire collection. After nerding out with Alesana for a long time, I found that they came out with A Place Where The Sun Is Silent, and this album is very special in it's own. Throughout finding my love for this style of music, this band just ranked very high with me, and a main part of that as I said was the cleaner vocals, and how they just felt comfortable. Unfortunately, with The Emptiness, there's just not enough of the cleaner vocals. Upon listening to A Place Where The Sun Is Silent, I found they tried to appeal to those listeners that really clinged to the cleaner vocals, and they did it so well. The band as a whole seemed to have grown a lot in this album since their last releases, but that's not saying their previous albums were bad, this one just has a much more mature feel to it.